PRISM

the-lame-brain 2021-10-04 21:28

I really like your game!

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Also: I would suggest that the default position for the three color switches on your Prism shield be set to off. I kept dying and couldn't figure out why until I realized that UP is ON and DOWN is OFF.

I am so glad I downloaded the game and tried it! I REALLY REALLY like it! I don't know if there is supposed to be level 2? For me, it just goes to a white screen and never does anything else but play music, but I still had SO much fun with this game. Easily the best thing I have played from Ludum Dare this year.

Cheers! [-LB](https://ldjam.com/users/the-lame-brain/)

mouf 2021-10-05 08:25

Really nice graphics and music, hard to understand at first the gameplay but it became very cool once i was all on it !

edoardo-talamini 2021-10-05 09:02

Nice grapich and really cool music. A bit hard to understand but very cool game when you do!

Two things: making the turbulence toggles start as active is a bit confusing, and it seems that if you fail to dodge an asteroid no other asteroid appear.

orangutanrider 2021-10-05 10:14

Graphics are really good. That animation at the start is just perfect.

Sometimes asteroids would glitch out and stay on the screen after I passed them.

I didn't understand the point in coolant.

heho 2021-10-05 11:30

the graphics on this one are just amazing. Hard to grasp at first. all the tutorials are frontloaded and a bit much in the beginning. But very cool idea

moritz14 2021-10-05 14:34

The browser version is verry large on the screen. Nice work!

alex-one 2021-10-05 14:38

Elegant game, quite challenging to figure out at first

rubentipparach 2021-10-05 14:42

Really love this retro art style. I'm a sucker for spaceship console simulators.

koolruz 2021-10-05 16:36

This is a cool concept! It would have helped a lot to have more visual/audio feedback of different events happening to your ship, though - I kept blowing up and not realizing what killed me. I was pretty overwhelmed with all of the meters I had to monitor, and never had any extra time to look at my health bar, so I almost never realized when there was something was causing me to take damage. It would have helped a lot to have (eg) your ship shake and play a sound while you were taking turbulence damage, or to have an asteroid obviously hit your ship by playing some visual effect.

Overall though, good job creating something interesting and different! :)

bjornstahl 2021-10-05 17:08

I really liked the art well done, but I had a hard time figuring the game out, even after reading the help section.

gr3yknigh1 2021-10-05 21:36

Nice art and music ^_^ It is better to make the explosion screen shorter

chewiecb 2021-10-06 10:24

This is awesome, the art is fantastic, the music is catchy and fits the mood of the game, the sound design was nice and made all the switches feel heavy and clunky - really placed them in the world for me.

The prism mechanic took a while to click for me possibly because the wave for the blue switch on the prism graph looks a bit like a black line which threw me off a bit? Interesting gameplay that felt tense and well balanced, my only issue is that the win and load screens just showed a white or red square over half the screen for a few seconds before reloading, not sure if this is a bug or just unfinished but a win/lose screen would have been nice.

mordrick 2021-10-06 12:06

Whoa that really overwhelmed me and took its time to be a playable game that doesn't beat me in the first couple of seconds due to the bit confusing UI ^^. But those kind of time management games are always tricky. I do like the art style, though and I will definitely try to reach the end now ^^-

blutgruppedigital 2021-10-06 13:41

I like the look of it! Unfortunately I am too stupid to figure out what to do and how to do it good! :D

slimmerburger 2021-10-06 17:38

The UI and everything looks great but I couldn't figure out what all the buttons

emaigualmc2-art 2021-10-13 20:16

I really liked the art work, the finish is really great and everything you managed to do. I had some problems with the resolution of the game, maybe it is my screen :P Good job!

malcolm 2021-10-13 22:58

Really interesting and well implemented but I'm still not sure what keeps killing me. A little feedback on death would be very helpful.

zacharypinkham 2021-10-13 23:21

Really interesting idea for the game, but I'd like to echo what others said about having some difficulty with how it it set up and presented. The "How to Play" page made sense, but it's very overwhelming how it was laid out--a tutorial would have gone a long way. Also, I wasn't really having anything to react to the whole time I played it? I played it in browser and it's possible that's where the trouble came from. Still, I think it was a very interesting idea and I appreciate that!